Teardown of an USB-C Cable with integrated LCD
What happened
Teardown of an USB-C Cable with integrated LCD, according to Hackaday. Out of sheer curiosity [Aaron Christophel] recently took apart one of these , to see what’s inside and what else you can do with them beyond fondling its single touch control and watch reported voltages and current. Naturally, these devices aren’t exactly meant to be serviced by anyone, so the biggest challenge is to get into them without too much violence.
Risking a blood sacrifice to the Hardware Gods, [Aaron] first attacks the display cover of this €15, 240 Watt-rated UGreen cable with sharp utensils before just taking apart the aluminium case, which ultimately gets him inside. After this it’s clear that attacking the display cover was the right way, just requiring knowing where to apply pressure in order to invert the assembly process. Following that it’s not clear how it was assembled, though it may have involved liberal amounts of glue after sliding in the components.
Sources & evidence
- Hackaday Reporting source
Teardown of an USB-C Cable with Integrated LCD ↗
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/teardown-of-an-usb-c-cable-with-integrated-lcd/